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Direct and indirect influences of socio-economic position on the wellbeing of older adults
— a structural equation model using data from the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing | | Author(s) | Jonathan Pratschke, Trutz Haase, Kieran McKeown |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 37, no 9, October 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, October 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1770-1797 |
| Source | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X1600060X |
| Keywords | Economic status [elderly] ; Well being ; Correlation ; Mathematical models ; Quantitative studies ; Ireland. |
| Annotation | The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) is a rich source of data on people aged over 50 and living in private households. The authors use Structural Equation Modelling techniques to analyse the determinants of well-being amongst older adults with data from the first wave (2009-2011) of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). The analysis uses a two-group linear statistical model to explore the influence of socio-economic position on men's and women's well-being, with Full Information Maximum Likelihood estimation to handle missing data. The fit indices for the final model are highly satisfactory and the measurement structure is invariant by gender and age. The results indicate that socio-economic position has a significant direct influence on well-being and a strong indirect influence which is mediated by health status and lifestyle. The total standardised effect of Socio-economic Position on Socio-emotional Wellbeing is statistically significant (p < 0.05) and equal to 0.32 (men) and 0.43 (women), a very strong influence, which risks being underestimated in standard multivariate models. The authors conclude that health, cognitive functioning and well-being reflect not just the ageing process, but also the impact of social inequalities across the life-course and how they are transmitted across different life spheres. These results can help to orient future research on factors which mediate between socio-economic position and well-being, an important policy-related issue. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-171017002 A |
| Classmark | F:W: D:F:5HH: 49: 3LM: 3DQ: 763 |
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